Cake-pan.



E. JONES.

GAKE PAN.

APPLICATION FILED DEG.26,1911.

Patented July 16, 1912.

Inventor Witnesses Attorneys EFFIE JONES, F OTTAWA, KANSAS.

CAKE-PAN.

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Specification of letters Patent.

Patented July 16, 191%.

Application filed December 26, 1911. Serial No; 667,699.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that T, Enrrn J ONES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ottawa, in

the county of Franklin and State of Kansas, have invented a new and useful Cake-Pan, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to cake pans and its principal object is to provide a device of this character particularly designed for use in baking cakes such as are of a light spongy nature and among which may be mentioned those varieties known as angel food cake and sponge cake.

Heretofore it has been diflicult to successfully bake cakes of this character because it has required considerable skill to remove them from the pans without breaking them.

Furthermore it has been necessary, in order to prevent the cakes from falling to invert them and supportthem in such position i as to permit air to circulate freely under the supported, the pan permits air to-circulate freely across the lower face of the inverted cake.

With the foregoing and other objects in View which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings the preferred form of the invention has been shown.

In said drawings :Figure 1 is a perspective view ofthe pan. Fig. 2 is a central vertical section therethrough. Fig. 3 is a sectional view through the pan inverted and showing a-cake supported therein for coollng purposes. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the removable bottom of the pan.

Referring to the figures by characters of reference 1 designates a pan preferably rectangular although the same can be of any other desired contour. The bottom of the pan 1s provided with an opening 2 preferably circular and the wall of which is spaced from all of the walls of the pan 1 so as to form a bottom ledge 3 adapted to support the false bottom 4 of the pan. This false bottom is adapted to fit loosely within the pan. A head 5 is preferably formed along y the free or top edges of the walls of the pan arid the wire 6 extended through the bead has loops 7 extending from the corners of the pan and adapted, when the pan is inverted to form legs for supporting the pan out of contact with the table or other struc-' ture on which it may be mounted.

As shown in the drawings the corners of the pan are preferably rounded so that the said pan can be easily cleaned.

In using the pan the false bottom t is placed on the ledge 3, as shown in Fig. 2 and the pan is then filled as ordinarily. After the cake has been baked the pan is inverted so that the legs 7 will support it with the cake out of contact with.the surface oh which the pan is mounted. This position of the parts has been illustrated in Fig. 3. W ith the pan and cake thus inverted, air is free to circulate between the cake and the sup orting surface and after the cake has coo ed sufiiciently, it can be removed from the pan by cutting along the inner faces of the Walls of the pan and then pushing the false bottom 4 out of the pan. Thus it will be seen that a cake of a light spongy nature can be successfully baked without danger of breaking it when removing it from the .pan' and without danger of the cake falling while cooling.

\Vhatis claimed is An invertible pan including beads extending along the top edges of the walls thereof, and a wire extending through the beads and having an integral upstanding loop at each corner of the pan, all of said loops constituting legs when the pan is inverted for supportingall portions of the pan and its contents out of Contact with the surface under as my own, I have heretoafiixed my signathe pan, said loops being located outside of ture in the presence of two witnesses. the planes of the inner surfaces of the Walls EFFI-E JONES of the pan so as to constitute no obstructions 5 in the path of the contents being removed Witnesses:

from the pan. MAY ICEENE,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing LYDIA I. KENDALL. 

